Ukrainian Lina Borozdina will fly into suborbital space. She purchased a ticket for the space plane back in 2005, Dev reports. On January 26, 2024, the private company Virgin Gallactic will make a suborbital flight. On board the Unity spaceplane, in addition to the crew members, there will be four private...
US Vice President Kamala Harris announced that an international astronaut will land on the surface of the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis program. CNN reported in more detail. Although the United States has previously committed to taking foreign astronauts to the Moon on future Artemis missions, it is now...
NASA Artemis II mission crew NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will fly to the moon in November 2024. Artemis III, scheduled for 2025, will actually land on the moon, and the Americans again ...
Many of us in childhood dreamed of becoming astronauts, and now there is an opportunity to almost fulfill our dream, albeit not for long. More told the publication Time Out. At the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, you can get up close and personal with an insider tour of…
American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was on the first mission to the moon and the second to set foot on its surface, celebrated his 93rd birthday by marrying his longtime girlfriend Anka Faur. The BBC writes about it. The ceremony took place in Los Angeles, California. About the wedding...
The European Space Agency for the first time in the world has selected a person with a disability to participate in the astronaut training program, reports the BBC. Briton John McFall, 41, was one of 17 men and women selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for training for the first time in 13…
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has changed the criteria for the Astronaut Title and Astronaut Wings Badge. It happened on the day of the flight into space of the founder of Amazon and the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos. IXBT writes about this. ...
American Katherine Sullivan became the first person on Earth to visit space and the bottom of the Mariana Trench, writes BBC. The former NASA astronaut dived to a depth of 7 m into the Challenger Deep in the southwest Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean on June 10915. "Cruising...
On April 17, three crew members of the International Space Station returned to Earth, where in the pandemic regime people live in even more isolation than astronauts in orbit, writes the BBC. The landing took place in an area located southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. ...
NASA has interrupted the live broadcast of two American astronauts into space to announce the death of Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. He was the first person to go into outer space, writes Voice of America. Astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch went into outer space today ...